Long Guoqiang

Long was born in Shaoyang, Hunan province, in 1966. He studied at Peking University from 1987 to 1998 and got a bachelor degree, master of management science, and PhD in economic, then took part in a Sino-US program at Renmin University, the Ford Training Course on Modern Economics. He also took part in the Tsinghua-Harward Senior Executive Program in Public Administration.

From 1987 to 1993, he was with Peking University's Urban and Regional Science Department, first as a teaching assistant, then lecturer, then assistant department chairman. From 1993 to 2013, he was with DRC's Foreign Economic Relations research department, first as deputy director and head of research, then deputy director, then director. He was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies, in the US, from 1998 to 1999 and is a doctoral tutor at the University of International Business and Economics, an adjunct professor/senior researcher at Peking University, and at the Beijing Institute of Technology, and the China Executive Leadership Academy, in Yanan. He is also a vice-president of the China Association for International Economic Cooperation, a director of the China Society for WTO Studies, and a vice-chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Committee for Global Trade Agenda 2009.

Long has done much research on China's foreign economic policies, and a number of major policy studies in foreign trade, cross-border investment, international economic cooperation, special economic zones, and regional economic cooperation. His research also covers macroeconomics and industrial policies. At a meeting of the Politburo of Party Central Committee, in 2007, he addressed the gathering with a talk on Increased Opening-up and Maintaining National Economic Security. He got a special allowance and a 1st Prize of Beijing for achievements in philosophy and the social sciences, and an Excellent Young Teacher of Beijing title. He has won the DRC's annual Excellent Papers award several times, a China Development Research award, and a National Prize for Excellent Papers on Foreign Trade and Economic Relations.